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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a DCC 8th grader and I have a couple different emails back from MCPS staff in response to earlier confusing notices stating that my child will remain at his chosen school which happens to be our current home school for 9th, but not for 10-12th. We received the jump start letter and weren’t interested, though even if we were getting to Northwood with no transportation options while Northwood is in a holding school nowhere near its home campus would be a nightmare. (The jump start program specified no transportation would be provided). It’s ridiculous that MCPS is jerking families around so much.[/quote]

The website linked above clearly states that this year's 8th graders should have transportation to their DCC or NEC school for all 4 years.  In the section for parents of current 8th graders it says that things should not change for those kids, including specifically that DCC and NEC bus transportation (i.e. neighborhood-based bus stops) will not change:

"Students in the Downcounty Consortium (DCC), Northeast Consortium (NEC), or other regional/countywide programs (like MC2 at Northwood, Regional IB at John F. Kennedy, Science, Math and Computer Science at Blair HS and etc.) can continue in their program until graduation. DCC and NEC bus transportation and central stop bus transportation continues to be available."

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/academic-programs-analysis/middle-school-students/[/quote]

This is where you are interpreting something they did not explicitly say. You read that as guaranteeing transportation all 4 years. I read that as transportation is “available” in some form for the time being (next year), until they decide otherwise. The truth is that they actually have not designed routes or planned transportation for 2027 when the system swells to accommodate grandfathered kids in sun setting programs/consortia as well as kids in new and old boundaries from different grade levels, as well as students opting into new regional programs. This is why people said slow down and think through specifics. This is the argument for why the regional programs should not be “inextricably linked” with the boundary study because the transportation is going to be a definite problem both from a cost standpoint and from a practical issue for families needing transportation MCPS suddenly thinks is optional. [/quote]

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